Shooter
Description
Shooters are action games in which the player character shoots enemies.
The shooting is usually performed with firearms in these games; however, any weapon that dispatches projectiles qualifies, which makes many games (e.g.
Heretic) that rely on medieval ranged weaponry or even magical projectiles shooters as well.
There are many shooter sub-genres, including
fixed-screen shooters,
scrolling shooters,
rail shooters, and others.
Since the emergence of 3D graphics, 3D shooters, popularized by
Wolfenstein 3D and
Doom, have become the leading representatives of the genre. This sub-genre is sometimes referred to as
first-person shooter, though this definition is not very precise, since the genre's distinguishing feature are 3D environments, not the perspective; some 3D shooters allow players to switch between perspectives, while others enforce a third-person view.
3D shooters may incorporate elements of other genres, most commonly role-playing (e.g.
System Shock games and
Deus Ex).
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Windows (1998) Swampberry Sling is one in a series of Disney casual games entitled Disney's Hot Shots. In this game, Kovu and... |
Game Boy Advance (2004) Disney’s Lilo & Stitch 2: Hamsterviel Havoc is a platform shooter and strategy game with some kart racing levels. The... |
Game Boy Advance (2002) Set after the events of the 2002 movie, Disney's Lilo & Stitch lets players take control of the two lead... |
PlayStation 2 (2002) Stitch Experiment 626 is a prequel to Disney's animation, Lilo & Stitch. Stitch is trying to escape his home planet... |
Game Gear (1993) and Genesis (1992) Baloo the Bear is the chief and only pilot at the always struggling air-frieght company of Higher for Hire. With... |
NES (1991) and Game Boy (1992) Based on the Disney cartoon Talespin. Baloo's airline cargo company, Higher for Hire, makes deliveries all around the world. The... |
Windows (1996) and Windows 3.x (1996) It starts with a colourful, really animated, and festive introduction. The environment is the Notre Dame Cathedral front yard, where... |
Amiga CD32 (1994) and Amiga (1993) This horizontally scrolling R-Type-influenced shoot 'em up features 5 levels to blast through, with bosses at the end of each... |
PlayStation (1996) Disruptor is a FPS with a few twists such as cut-scenes with actors, psionics as well as weapons and specific... |
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Genesis (1991) Falchion is an ace pilot in the Space Defense Force, and the pilot of a space ship known as Divine.... |
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DOS (1995) This CD compilation contains 500 deathmatch levels for Doom and Doom II taken from the net and bundled together on... |
Windows (2006) You are a one-man commando with the code name "Loveless" sent into North Korea to discover whether they are secretly... |
Commodore 64 (1989) Professor R. Szymanski has injected an accelerator and DNA into your brain to make you more intelligent. Just as the... |
Apple II (1982) At the top of your screen you see a mother ship. It is your mission to shoot this mother ship,... |
PlayStation (1998) Participate in the thrilling sport of the Dodgem Elite League.Dodgem Arena is a futuristic racing game that takes place in... |
PlayStation (1998) and SEGA Saturn (1997) DoDonPachi is Cave's sequel to their 1995 arcade release DonPachi. Like its predecessor, DoDonPachi is a vertical-scrolling and military- and... |
PlayStation 2 (2003) A PS2 port of the fourth installment of the Donpachi series, originally developed by Cave. It follows the same pattern... |
Amiga (1990) Dogfight is a two-player game with roots in the same primordial soup as Atari's Combat and other basic dogfighting games.The... |
Odyssey (1972) Dogfight is part of the Shooting Gallery add-on for the Odyssey. It requires the supplied rifle accessory, and game card... |
Atari ST (1990) Dogfight is, as the name suggests, a dogfighting game for one or two players. Player one starts on the left... |
Windows (2010) DogFighter is an arcade aerial combat game consisting of single player levels as well as multiplayer maps where players gather... |
Windows (1997) and DOS (1997) D.O.G. is a third-person shooter with vehicles and turrets to use. The game doesn't have a story, you just select... |
Browser (2008) Dogfight: The Great War has the player take command of a Sopwith Camel during World War I in ten missions... |
